. >> storm watch in most of the san francisco bay area throughout the weekend. heavy rain and wind, flooding roads and knocking out power lines. it is believed it is blamed for at least one traffic death. a utility worker was killed after crashing his truck into a traffic signal pole. i'm marianne rafferty, now back to "on the record." you are watching the most powerful name in news, fox newschannel. log on to foxnews.com. >> the president: it is not acceptable to me and i don't think it is acceptable to you for a handful of republicans in congress to hold middle class tax cuts hostage because they don't tax rates on upper income folks to go up. >> there's a stalemate the white house spent three weeks trying to develop a proposal and they send one up here that calls for 1.6 trillion in new tax. calls for a little -- not even 400 billion dollars in cuts. and they want to have this extra spending that is actually greater than the amount they are willing to cut. i mean it is -- it was not a serious proposal. >> greta: stalemate own one month before we dive head fir